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Choosing the best path: Global to national coordinate transformations Joel Haasdyk and Volker Janssen | Spatially Smart Wine Fadhillah Norzahari, Kate Fairlie, Adrian White, Mitchell Leach, Mark Whitty, Stephen Cossell, Jose Guivant and Jayantha Katupitiya | Building national capacity through spatial standards policies Steven Ramage | Locating dangerous zones prior to drilling the 57 km long Gotthard Tunnel in Switzerland Edi Meier and Ulrich Sambeth | Interviews Francois Erceau, A S Ganeshan, Dr Vinay Kumar Dadhwal| Download  your copy of Feb 2012 issue!

  

 
Choosing the best path: Global to national coordinate transformations
Joel Haasdyk and Dr Volker Janssen
Recently a number of new transformationparameters have been published, allowing users to transform data between national Australian datum (GDA94) and the global (dynamic) ITRF datums. This has created a problem of choice because there are many different paths of transformation by which data can travel between these datums. This paper have demonstrated that differences of up to a few centimetres in each coordinate component can occur depending on the choice of the transformation method applied between both...
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Spatially Smart Wine
Fadhillah Norzahari, Kate Fairlie, Adrian White, Mitchell Leach, Mark Whitty, Stephen Cossell, Jose Guivant and Jayantha Katupitiya
Spatially Smart Wine was a project initiated by an enthusiastic group of Sydney Young Surveyors, with the support of the Institute of Surveyors New South Wales and the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems and the University of New South Wales. First and second part of the paper was published in Dec'11 and Jan'12 issue respectively. Here is the concluding part of the paper...
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Building national capacity through spatial standards policies
Steven Ramage
SDIs are a key contributor to economic, social and institutional capacity building, and open standards that enable technical interoperability are a key component of SDIs.Such policies have a "capacity multiplier" effect, because open standards facilitate data sharing and promote geospatial technology market...
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Locating dangerous zones prior to drilling the 57 km long Gotthard Tunnel in Switzerland
Edi Meier and Ulrich Sambeth
Georadar is a feasible tool for detecting dangerous waterfi lled zones in granitic rocks. It is a very quick method and can be carried out during the check of the drilling bits.Georadar (or Ground Penetrating Radar) was one of the tools used to locate the most critical zone "Piora Mulde"
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"The surveying equipment industry continues to be highly dynamic"
- Francois Erceau, General Manager, Spectra Precision / Nikon / Ashtech

"GAGAN is expected to replace the GPS receivers and provide data integrity"
- A S Ganeshan, Project Director, Navigation Systems, ISRO Satellite Centre

"Indian RS data products are very competitively priced"
- Outstanding Scientist and Director, National Remote Sensing Centre, Indian Space Research Organization
 



   



 
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Second Galileo IOV Satellite transmitting signals
On 16 January, the second of the two Galileo In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites, FM2 (Flight Model 2) also known as GSAT0102, started transmitting navigation signals on the L1/E1 frequency using the E12 ranging...[more]

Galileo sees success in early testing
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First Galileo satellite GIOVE-A outlives design life to reach sixth anniversary
British satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd has announced that Galileo In Orbit Validation Element GIOVE-A has completed the sixth year of transmission...[more]

ESA space plans for 2012
European Space Agency revealed its plans for 2012. It includes Galileo, which would see the launch of the second...[more]

 


Warrant compulsory for GPS tracking: Supreme Court

Chinese satellite navigation market to reach USD 35 bn

Russian navigation programme seeks private investment

Commercial debut of Beidou leads to speculations in Taiwan

GPS tests were rigged, Lightsquared claims

Global PND shipments declined to 33 million units in 2011

National Address Gazetteer Database to replace NLPG

Vietnam to modernize land administration

US defense to buy less commercial satellite imagery

Study shows alternatives for commercial sat imagery market

ESA may cancel Sentinel launch

China launches RS satellite

 

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